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Definition of Barbituric acid
1. Noun. A white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs.
Definition of Barbituric acid
1. Noun. (organic compound) A heterocyclic compound derived from pyrimidine that is the basis of all barbiturate drugs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Barbituric acid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbituric Acid
Literary usage of Barbituric acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Precipitation of Furfural by Means of barbituric acid. — Jager and linger * have
suggested barbituric acid for precipitating furfural in presence of foreign ..."
2. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"It is more powerful than veronal, but more dangerous and less reliable.
Phenylethyl-barbituric Acid, NNR; Luminal. ..."
3. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"One atom of the hydrogen in barbituric acid may readily be substituted by metals.
So-called normal salts are known, such, for instance, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"The most important of these compounds appear to be alloxan and barbituric acid.
Alloxan, the first discovered product of the artificial oxidation of uric ..."
5. Fownes Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical: A New American from by George Fownes (1885)
"barbituric acid crystallizes in beautiful prisms, containing two molecules of
... are obtained by treating the corresponding acetates with barbituric acid. ..."
6. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1907)
"Dibromo- barbituric acid on reduction forms barbituric acid. Now, since barbituric
acid is decomposed with potash into urea and malonic acid, it is probably ..."
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